The Prompt at ReadWritePoem today is a list poem made up of 5 lines of poetry stolen from five different poems. Almost all my poetry books are at school and I only have two here. I picked up The Best American Poetry 2008 at the library the other day so my last three are from that.
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Beginnings are brutal, like this accident
of her father’s voice on the phone.
Drinks his dark rum all day, and is content.
He was drunk, disgracefully so, which is why
nothing there except stones and wind.
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Dorianne Laux “Each Sound” What We Carry
Alison Townsend “TheAddict” Persephone in America
Robert Bly “Wanting Sumptuous Heavens”
Ira Sadoff “American”
D. Nurske “The Gate of Abraham”
This shows that I need to read more of poetry. Much much more than I do..
ReplyDeletegyrating on its own steam of oath
Pretty cool how these five lines all blend together so perfectly. Did you alter them at all?
ReplyDeleteWoo! Great job with this.
ReplyDeleteThe lines follow one another very well. love it (I think I need to read the originals perhaps)
ReplyDeletegreat line selection.
ReplyDeleteWow, those lines came together flawlessly! Love the poem. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love the last line.
ReplyDeleteI've written a five liner too.
#22 collage
The last line does a wonderful job of wrapping the entire poem up.
ReplyDeleteThese are perfect as a whole.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the final bit about stones and wind.